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...chairman, despite grumbles that Kohl will be no match for Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next year's elections. After that, to stir support for C.D.U. candidates in upcoming European Parliament elections, a novel buffet of dishes from other European Community nations: smoked salmon from Denmark, Netherlands herring, Italian wine and, Gott im Himmel, the French dish-or dishes-three dancers who pranced about onstage wearing only G strings and nonaligned ostrich feathers. Kohl diplomatically said nothing about the surprise entree. But some other C.D.U.ers did. Harrumphed an anti-Kohlite who clearly recognized breasts and circuses when...
Others have tagged him as "the spokesman for elitism in American theater." Brustein doesn't like his "elitist" label, and calls it "a political football and a red herring." The word "elite," he says, is misunderstood in America. People think that "no one is better than anyone else. Well, that's the wrong road to take--a person can have a special talent or gift, and we have to identify that gift and encourage it. I'm interested in quality, excellence, standards." He says he has preserved his ideal over the last 13 years, but has learned how to soften...
Vesco's emissaries tenaciously tried a new approach. Herring went to Attorney W. Spencer Lee IV of Albany, Ga., and offered him a $10,000 retainer?in addition to a fee of $1 million?if he would set up a meeting with top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, a school chum and tennis companion of Lee's. Vesco meanwhile told Herring and Dorminey that he would arrange for them to acquire $10 million worth of stock in a Panamanian company for $42,000, if they could get to somebody at the White House on his behalf...
There the Vesco case rested until earlier this year, when the Securities and Exchange Commission began delving into more of his complicated stock schemes. The probe led to Dorminey and Herring. The SEC also obtained unsigned copies of letters and telephone logs of purported contacts in early 1977 between Lee, Jordan and Carter Adviser Charles Kirbo...
Early in September, Syndicated Columnist Jack Anderson published a story hinting that the Justice Department's decision to stop trying to extradite Vesco was proof that his influence-buying scheme had succeeded. Anderson also obtained sworn statements from Herring's secretary, Geralynne Hobbs, that she had typed and mailed to Jordan and Kirbo several letters about Vesco's proposals...